Summer is traditionally associated with vacations, warm evenings on terraces and refreshing alcoholic cocktails with ice. When we talk about the harm of alcoholic beverages, most people immediately think of the liver or cardiovascular system.

The first decades of the twenty-first century are characterized by an unprecedented epidemic of noncommunicable (noncommunicable) diseases (NCDs). Cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes, neurodegenerative disorders (Alzheimer's, Parkinson's), aggressive forms of cancer and depressive states increasingly affect young people.